FISHERMAN

Darkness and spotlight,intense colours,form and shapes.Perfect concept and manipulation.My regards.

Thank you Foti, focusing the attention on the highlights.

Thank you for loolimg and commenting.

A strange sensation of movement! But, from where comes this light? Very beautiful image. Ciao, Alx

Minimum nr of objects, maximum aesthetic result !! Excellent composition. Congrats !!

I think that a picture does not necessarily have to follow the absolute measure of reality in order to be acceptable. There are instances that we have to allow our imagination to come into play. Subtraction is the idea here. Thank you for commenting Alex, many regards.

Thank you Costa, many regards.

Fascinating and very cleaver image Dimitris -- it takes a while to follow the color clues and assuming I've unraveled it, the image speaks not only to the movement of the eye but to the action of rowing the boat and stress to the oarsman's left side. As the oarsman pulls and leans, a majority of the power is leveraged from his right side, which accounts for the long vertical muscles on the right side of his back. The left appears to be used to stabilize him accounting for the horizontal musculature. This is likely compounded by the leverage available from the position of the hands on the oar. The red on the left gunnel is mirrored on the top of his left shoulder. As he pushes and leans into the stroke, the boat would move forward but tend to the left and as he pulls it would tend to the right. Just as I'm tending to see foreground with the green gunnel and background with the left leaving the oarsman and the diagonal oar balanced between the two.

I worked on this image, on and off, for many hours, deleting the result and starting over again and again. I thought it as an exercise in expressing a feeling combined with what I would accept as an aesthetic representation of this feeling. It is very joyful to read your critique. Thanks for that!

We teach children to "trust their gut", the expressed feeling from the back of the mind of an artist is always wonderful. With Regards to the Artist, john mac

In the true spirit of critique and only if you're inclined to game this one more time, consider introducing an antagonist wave the oarsman is gazing out at (perhaps the horizon line) and potentially upset the balance in the heart of the Fisherman ; ) Best and can't wait to see your next, John

Simple yet tell so much, as per John's analysis. The striking lines of colours along the boat & his 'litted' back, shorts & oars illuminate the image so very well.

This also works very well Dimitri, the subtraction effect is very nice and gives a "painting sense" to the viewer.

Very nice composition Dimitri my friend.

"Gut feeling" as is commonly kmown or instinct is most important!

I find your sugestion, in the second leg of your statement, very interesting!

My dear friends, Cherlyn, Panayoti and Michael, thank you very mych for your comments!

light, colors, movement are very curious and contribute to a very strange feeling...seems to be taken during a dream ... very good my friend !

Thanks!